Sisters of the Yam: Black Women and Self-Recovery - Softcover

Hooks, Bell

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1138821683 ISBN 13: 9781138821682

Publisher: Routledge, 2014

Synopsis

In Sisters of the Yam, bell hooks reflects on the ways in which the emotional health of black women has been and continues to be impacted by sexism and racism. Desiring to create a context where black females could both work on their individual efforts for self actualization while remaining connected to a larger world of collective struggle, hooks articulates the link between self recovery and political resistance. Both an expression of the joy of self healing and the need to be ever vigilant in the struggle for equality, Sisters of the Yam continues to speak to the experience of black womanhood.

About this title

About the Author:

A cultural critic, an intellectual, and a feminist writer, bell hooks is best known for classic books including Ain’t I a Woman, Bone Black, All About Love, Rock My Soul, Belonging, We Real Cool, Where We Stand, Teaching to Transgress, Teaching Community, Outlaw Culture, and Reel to Real. hooks is Distinguished Professor in Residence in Appalachian Studies at Berea College, and resides in her home state of Kentucky.

Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved.:

Though many of us recognize the depth of our pain and hurt, we do not usually collectively organize in an ongoing manner to find and share ways to heal ourselves. Our literature has helped, however. Progressive black women artists have shown ongoing concern about healing our wounds. Much of the celebrated fiction by black women writers is concerned with identifying our pain and imaginatively constructing maps for healing.

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1138821683
• ISBN 13: 9781138821682
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 184